All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

The embroidered clothes envoy stepped forward vigilantly, sniffing the little eunuch's breath.

"It's alive."

He said, pushing the little eunuch, "Hey, get up!"

Unexpectedly, the little eunuch remained motionless, showing no sign of waking up.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi walked to the bed, leaned over, and took the pulse on the side of the young eunuch's neck.

Just when she was about to lift the little eunuch's eyelids to check——
Suddenly, she found a small abnormal wrinkle in the skin below the man's ear.

Shen Lingxi was most familiar with this kind of wrinkles.

It's because the human skin mask isn't pasted properly that there are wrinkles.

She reached out her hand directly, pinched the fold, and tore off the human skin mask with a "hiss".

Immediately, a completely unfamiliar face appeared.

"Who is this person?" Shen Lingxi raised her eyes and asked.

It is an important place of imperial mausoleum, even if this courtyard is outside the mausoleum, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to enter.

What's more, he was still under the eyelids of the embroiderer.

The embroiderer obviously didn't expect that the other party would use this method to escape the shell, and hurriedly said: "It's the little eunuch who lives in the same room as Gui Sheng."

"It's probably because someone has been drugged like this." Shen Lingxi directly ordered: "This matter is extraordinary, there are countless palace people in the mausoleum ceremony, one radish and one hole, this person not only has the appearance of Gui Sheng Here, at this moment, Gui Sheng must be wearing his appearance outside, we must find him as soon as possible, otherwise trouble will happen later."

Embroidered clothes so naturally knew the urgency of the matter, hurriedly bowed his head in response, and walked out of the wing.

At the same time, Mu Huai'an and Su Xian also followed in.

The more Shen Lingxi thought about it, the more worried she became, and said to Mu Huai'an, "Can Shaoqing take me to find His Highness?"

Mu Huai'an: "I can only take you outside the Mausoleum. His Highness will be with the Emperor at the moment. The Mausoleum is heavily guarded and guarded by officials from the Taichang Temple. It is almost impossible to get close to them." thing."

"I'll take you there." Su Xian who was at the side suddenly opened his mouth, his eyes revealing a thoughtful look, and he said pointedly: "Both of you and I should wear Taoist robes."

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The mausoleum sacrifice ceremony is to first worship at the Changling of the Gaozu, and then go to the Zhaoling of the late emperor.

Su Xian and Shen Lingxi were wearing cassocks, which complemented the bright and yellow soul banners dotted around without any violation.

After all, Su Xian was the most embarrassing Taoist priest in front of the emperor.

The two came outside the mausoleum hall of Changling. As soon as the officials of Taichang Temple saw him, they hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects, asked a few words in a low voice, waved hands with the inner guards, and let them enter the mausoleum hall.

Because the emperor came with the empress dowager and the empress this time, and officials and family members followed, the ceremony adopted the way of worshiping men and women separately.

The emperor led all the officials to worship first, and after they finished their worship and exited the mausoleum, the empress dowager and empress led the officials and their families to worship.

At this moment, in the main hall, the emperor's sacrifice ceremony has come to an end.

The queen mother, empress and officials are waiting behind the special screen on the west side of the mausoleum.

As the ceremony sang "kneeling down", Shen Lingxi followed Su Xian, quickly followed the crowd, and quickly knelt down along with the emperor and all the officials.

Shen Lingxi took advantage of the gap between kneeling and standing up, and hurriedly glanced at the head of the main hall.

She didn't care if she didn't look at it, but she was shocked by this look.

In the mausoleum hall, there was a crowd, except for the concubines who followed Chu Yan and came to see the excitement.

There are also many dead souls of the palace people of this dynasty.

Among them were eunuchs, court ladies, and women in concubines' palace clothes.

In this solemn and quiet mausoleum, they floated high and low in mid-air.

Looking down at these nobles, civil and military officials.

This scene is really lively.

Also...so weird.

As far as Shen Lingxi knew, there was no sacrificial burial system in Dazhou.

So what is the origin of these palace people and concubines floating in the mausoleum?
Liu Meiren was the first to spot Shen Lingxi, and floated towards her with a smile.

Seeing doubts in her eyes, she explained: "Little girl, I just asked for you. These are the tomb guards in the imperial tomb. After they passed away, their souls have been here."

Speaking of this, she laughed softly, "It's strange to say that we were trapped in the palace by the formation, and we couldn't go anywhere. They were not trapped by anything, they just died of illness in this barren mountain, After dying of old age and becoming ghosts, I don’t know where to go. There is no ghost messenger to take them away.”

Shen Lingxi suddenly understood.

Not to mention these ghosts, even she has never seen such a thing as a "ghost messenger" since she was able to see ghosts after being reborn.

In the past, when she met lonely ghosts like them who wandered in the world and had no obsession, she would bring them to the Xuanqing female crown, and the female crown would reincarnate them for them.

But after the death of Xuanqing female crown, Shen Lingxi's senior brother Miaozhen female crown, the supernatural spells sometimes work and sometimes don't work, and there are fewer lonely souls.

Now that there is Su Xian who has profound Taoism and so many ghosts, he can send them all away in one go.

When Shen Lingxi heard that they were the guardians of the imperial tomb, she thought of her little aunt.

Perhaps, after catching Guisheng, she could inquire about the current situation of her little aunt with these ghosts.

Thinking of this, Shen Lingxi cheered up even more.

Taking advantage of the gap between kneeling and worshiping, he swept the faces of the eunuchs serving in the palace one by one.

Among the eunuchs, Gui Sheng was not found pretending to be that person.

On the way here, she had already inquired that a servant of Gui Sheng's level must serve in the mausoleum hall during the mausoleum sacrifice.

If it's not within sight, then it must be...

The corner of Shen Lingxi's eyes was locked on the screen on the west side of the hall.

He must hide behind the screen and follow the concubine and officials.

Shen Lingxi was looking for an opportunity to go to the side of the screen to find out.

I can only hear the praise from above: "Li is over!"

The emperor and all the officials got up.Hundreds of officials stand on the east side, leaving a passage for the guard of honor of the emperor and prince to leave the hall first.

Shen Lingxi was worrying about how to get behind the screen on the west side——
Suddenly, behind the screen, a woman's family exclaimed, "Ah! There is a snake!"

Following this exclamation, there was an instant commotion behind the screen.

Shen Lingxi's heart sank to the bottom.

coming!

On such an occasion, even the ants were cleaned up by Taichang Temple and the servants, so how could there be snakes!

Chu Yan sensed something was wrong at the first time, and shouted in a deep voice: "Come here, escort, first protect the emperor to leave!"

Riots occur in crowded places, and people are most afraid of running around like headless chickens.

With his order, hidden guards appeared from nowhere, surrounded the emperor and walked out of the palace.

The emperor is the supreme existence in the hearts of all officials.

Especially at this time, it is the best time to show loyalty to the emperor.

If one can earn the merit of "escort", that would be a century-long honor for the family.

As a result, all the civil and military officials in the palace scrambled to form a fleshy wall, protecting the emperor from the inside and walking out.

Naturally, the effect of crowd diversion has been achieved.

With little effort, Shen Lingxi collided with Chu Yan's eyes through the crowd.

The two looked at each other, and Chu Yan immediately knew that the matter in the palace should be related to the little eunuch she had just gone to find.

"Ah! It's a poisonous snake! Empress, be careful!"

At this moment, someone in the female family in the screen screamed again, which made the commotion behind the screen even worse.

The screen wobbled and almost fell over.

Several female relatives even ran out from behind the screen in panic.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi gave up the idea of ​​entering the screen from the bottom, and walked directly against the crowd of officials to the top of the hall.

Chu Yan exchanged a glance with her, turned around resolutely, and walked up the main hall.

Chu Yan's position was closest to the sacrificial altar above. He had just walked in front of the sacrificial altar and was about to approach the screen.

"Your Highness, be careful!" Shen Lingxi shouted in shock.

With a "boom", the thick screen carved from rosewood collapsed in an instant.

Chu Yan dodges and narrowly avoids it.

At the same time, the scene behind the screen was instantly revealed in Shen Lingxi's sight!

As far as the eye can see, the female relatives are panicked, huddling together in twos and threes.

On the pitch-black floor tiles, three pitch-black little snakes were spitting scarlet letters and swimming around.

Wherever the snake went, the female relatives screamed out one after another.

At the top, the servants and maids surrounded the queen mother and queen in panic, and staggered out stepping on the screen.

Shen Lingxi saw at a glance that a thin figure in eunuch uniform was pushing aside the turbulent female relatives and squeezed towards the empress dowager and empress!

It's Guisheng!
Shen Lingxi hurriedly quickened her pace.

But she was too far away from the head of the main hall, but the little eunuch was getting closer and closer.

Shen Lingxi saw that there were only two palace people between him and the queen, and suddenly saw a cold light flashing from his sleeve.

In the blink of an eye, Shen Lingxi understood something, and hurriedly shouted to Chu Yan: "Your Highness, Gui Sheng is going to assassinate the queen, catch him!"

As soon as these words came out, Chu Yan's complexion changed slightly, he tiptoed lightly, and flew towards the queen.

And the empress also opened her eyes wide in horror, completely unaware of where the crisis lies.

The little eunuch thought that his plan was flawless, but he had calculated thousands of times, but he never expected that someone would be able to detect his scheme at this time.

He even called out his name!

A look of sternness flashed in his eyes, he directly slapped away the maid who was blocking him, raised his hand and stabbed the queen's heart!
At the moment when the blade in his hand was about to stab the queen's heart, Chu Yan split his blade with a knife.

"what!"

The queen exclaimed.

The sharp blade brushed past her Zhai clothes, cutting a long slit in the clothes.

If she was one step late, she would have to confess her life here.

The little eunuch is a practitioner, if he fails in one blow, he knows that with his skill, it will be difficult to win.

In desperation, he reached out and touched his sleeve, grabbed a handful of powder, and swung it towards the queen!
With a flick of Chu Yan's sleeve, most of the powder was blocked, and he kicked the little eunuch's heart with a flying kick.

The little eunuch grunted, was kicked aside, and fell heavily to the ground.

At the same time, the three pitch-black poisonous snakes on the ground seemed to be stimulated by some strong smell, and frantically swam towards Chu Yan and the queen!

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi thought it was bad.

That medicinal powder can probably attract poisonous snakes, no matter whether it is Chu Yan or the queen, as long as they are bitten by a poisonous snake, they will definitely die.

Because the mausoleum sacrifice cannot bring murder weapons, Chu Yan was concerned about the queen's safety, so he stopped chasing the eunuch, grabbed a copper candle handle from the side, caught the tracks of poisonous snakes wandering wildly, and tried to nail them to the ground.

Shen Lingxi also took the opportunity to quicken her pace and ran towards Chu Yan's side.

She took out a porcelain bottle from her sleeve pocket, and splashed the medicine powder in the porcelain bottle in the direction of the poisonous snake.

Wherever the powder touched, the viper's movements obviously slowed down.

Seeing this, Chu Yan quickly nailed them to death one by one with copper candles.

Shen Lingxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Liulang, kill him for this palace, kill him quickly!" the queen said with hatred, her voice trembling.

Obviously already extremely horrible.

Hearing this, Chu Yan tightened the handle of the candle, and was going to deal with the little eunuch.

Just at this moment——
"Miss Shen, be careful!"

The souls of the dead in the hall all warned Shen Lingxi.

Shen Lingxi only felt a cold wind blowing behind her ears, before she had time to react, a cold sharp blade was already pressing on the side of her neck.

"Don't come here, or I'll kill her." The little eunuch threatened Chu Yan through gritted teeth.

He held Shen Lingxi's shoulder tightly with one hand. As long as Shen Lingxi dared to act rashly, he would kill her immediately.

Shen Lingxi frowned.

In this life, she has never been threatened with a knife on her neck.

The cold touch on her neck reminded her of the not-so-good memories of her previous life when she died.

She secretly accumulated energy, only waiting for the right time, and escaped with one blow.

Chu Yan's eyes turned cold, "Let her go, I will let you go."

Hearing this, the little eunuch chuckled lightly.

"It seems that what the palace people said these days is correct. His Highness really has a deep affection for this Taoist priest, and he can openly defy the Queen's order."

As soon as the words came out, the queen immediately pursed her lips.

Seeing this, the queen mother shouted in a deep voice: "She is from the Ai family, don't hurt her, as long as she is unharmed, the Ai family will be the master and let you go!"

The smile on the little eunuch's face was even bigger.

"Since that's the case, please trouble Your Highness, throw away the things in your hand, and send the villain out of the imperial tomb. As long as the villain can get out of the imperial tomb, he will naturally let this Taoist priest go."

"Otherwise..." He pressed the short dagger in his hand.

A bright red bloodstain immediately appeared on Shen Lingxi's fair neck.

Seeing this, Chu Yan's eyes flickered with a touch of hostility.

But without hesitation, he threw the copper candle handle in his hand.

Not only that, he also yelled at the embroidered envoys and inner guards who rushed in: "Stand back!"

Seeing this, the little eunuch looked slightly relaxed, grabbed Shen Lingxi's shoulder, and stepped back.

Shen Lingxi silently calculated her steps in her heart.

Liu Meiren and a group of female ghosts also followed her side step by step with anxious faces.

The little eunuch held Shen Lingxi back step by step.

Chu Yan, with gloomy eyebrows and eyes, pressed his steps and approached step by step.

Shen Lingxi's eyes met his, and she silently said two words to him in a place where Xiaotai's surveillance line could not see.

Chu Yan blinked invisibly.

There is an unspeakable tacit understanding between the two.

Just when the little eunuch escorted Shen Lingxi and retreated to the threshold.

"Raise your legs." The little eunuch ordered, relaxing the strength in his hands a little.

After all, he thinks that Shen Lingxi is just a woman, if one of them can't retreat, stumbles on the threshold, and has his throat cut by him——
Then he must die.

Shen Lingxi tremblingly said in a terrified voice, "I, my legs are weak, and I can't lift my legs."

Such a reaction made the little eunuch relax his vigilance even more.

The little eunuch frowned deeply, relaxed the strength on his hands a little, and urged impatiently, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up."

He looked at Chu Yan warily.

Seeing this, Chu Yan took a few steps back to show that he had no intention of persecuting at all.

Such a reaction made the little eunuch's hand looser.

The moment Shen Lingxi stepped back across the threshold, she looked at the gap, straightly raised her body, and said "Oops", making a look of being overwhelmed.

It was too late to say it, but it was too soon, the little eunuch let go of his hand quickly.

Everyone saw Shen Lingxi's body, twirling extremely nimbly, grabbing the little eunuch's wrist, and with a click, his joints were removed!